2026-08-12

Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts

Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-12

Why small moments of recognition are becoming critical to workplace culture

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report shows employee engagement fell to 20% in 2025, its lowest level since 2020, with disengagement costing the global economy an estimated $10 trillion annually. Research also shows that engagement is closely tied to how employees experience their workplace relationships. Gallup’s workplace research found that highly engaged teams achieve […]<br / [...]

2026-08-12

Nvidia is building a trillion-parameter open model, and it would still be smaller than China’s

Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning on Tuesday. It is a 30 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with three billion active at any moment. The architecture is a hybrid of Mamba-2, MoE and attention layers, with a one million token context window. The weights are on Hugging Face and ModelScope. The licence is the part that matters. […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-12

The pros and cons of using a digital wallet

If you're not yet using the digital wallet -- Apple Wallet or Google Wallet -- on your phone, there are some good reasons to start. [...]

2026-08-12

Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition arrives October 1 and includes a new story arc

Ghost of Yōtei Complete Edition arrives October 1 and includes a new story arc. [...]

2026-08-12

How to watch Man Utd vs Leeds for FREE: live stream the 2026/27 pre-season friendly from anywhere

Here's how to watch Man Utd vs Leeds live streams for free from anywhere in the world, as the Premier League rivals contest a historic friendly in Dublin. [...]

2026-08-12

I gave ChatGPT access to my mess of open Chrome tabs — and it turned my browser clutter into something genuinely useful

ChatGPT's new Side Chat features bring the AI directly into the pages you're already browsing. [...]

2026-08-12

Tesla must physically recall over 20,000 Model 3 and Y EVs because their headlights are too bright

Tesla’s latest recall proves even the most software-focused EV needs hardware fixes. [...]

2026-08-12

15 of the best laptop deals in the US and the UK — I've found the best offers from Amazon, Best Buy, Currys, Argos, and more

I've rounded up 15 of the best laptop deals that are available now in the US and the UK, including devices from Apple, Samsung, Lenovo, Acer, and more. [...]